The new Surface Book scores big points for improved GPU performance and even better battery life, but older components, high prices, limited CPU improvements, and Microsoft’s decision not to sell the Performance Base separately from the primary system were all considered negatives by various reviewers.

Apple’s smartphone marketshare in “urban China” dropped 3.2 percentage points year-over-year during the spring quarter of 2016 — marking the company’s first such decline in the region since August 2014, according to research data published on Wednesday.

Fitbit shares earlier this week climbed several percentage points after the company’s app topped the iOS charts over the Christmas holiday. The Fitbit app was the top free app downloaded from Apple’s App Store on Christmas Day. It was already the most downloaded app in the store’s fitness and health category. The Fitbit Charge was also one of the three most popular products ordered via Amazon Prime’s free same-day shipping service over the period.

Apple’s share of the global smartphone market rose 0.6 points year-over-year to 13.1 percent in the September quarter, although Google’s Android cemented its lead as the world’s dominant mobile platform, Gartner said in research data released on Wednesday.

A report on Tuesday points out that a recent SSL/TSL vulnerability dubbed “FREAK” is not restricted to Web browsers and can affect mobile apps, leaving hundreds of iOS apps open to potential man-in-the-middle attacks.

The pulling points for migrating either to the Linux desktop or the Linux server often are reduced to two things. One is the cost of not migrating. The other is a decision to deploy Linux gradually — or entirely — throughout the office infrastructure. Individuals and businesses migrate to Linux for a variety of reasons. Some do it for cost efficiency. Others make the computing change for the greater flexibility open source software provides. Either way, leaving behind an existing computing system is not impossible.